1. Payne StewartIf you are going to dress like a modern fashion maverick on the course, you better have the game to back it up. Fortunately for the plus fours-wearing, Argyle-sock sporting, flat cap-crowned Stewart, he did…

2. Ben HoganGolfing great Hogan won nine major championships, but he scores a perfect ten in the style stakes. Always dapper and impeccably tailored, he never hit the links without his signature hat and ubiquitous cigarette.

3. Ted RhodesAfrican-American golfer Rhodes had the game, he had the look – a unique hipster jazz fashion sense – and he was super cool. Hell, he had it all. Quite simply he was the Tiger Woods of his era.

4. Seve Ballesteros“I don’t want people to watch the way I dress,” Ballesteros once said of the interest generated by his classically simple Seventies style. “I want people to watch the way I play.” Well, sorry, Seve... but we did both.

5. Walter HagenNot just a well-dressed for a golfer, Hagen was well-dressed, full stop. His eye-catching style, handmade outfits and tailored knitwear helped transform the image of golf in the Twenties and Thirties.

6. Arnold PalmerKnown in the golf world as the king of cool (even before Steve McQueen copyrighted the title), Palmer dressed on the course like he should have been in the Rat Pack. A Fifties vision in flat-fronted trousers, fitted shirts, black-and-white brogues... and a cardigan.

7. Rikard KarlbergSweden’s Karlberg is a modern master with a unique taste in fashion. Mixing flat caps and a hipster beard, with the sharp lines and slim fit of Hugo Boss Green, he embodies the golf look of 2017.

8. Gary PlayerThe Johnny Cash of the golf course, South African Player is known for his adherence to a single stylistic principle: always wear black. His father suggested he have a golfing gimmick and the “Black Knight” chose to wear one colour throughout his career. It worked.

9. Jack NicklausThe Golden Bear wasn’t the best dresser in the game when he was at the height of his powers, but he makes this list because of his green jackets. As a six-time winner of the Masters, we think that is about the best fashion statement any golfer can ever make.

10. Jesper ParnevikThanks to bands like The Beastie Boys, the Nineties was the decade where golf became cool again. And the golfer that embodied that resurgence in style was Jesper Parnevik, replacing pastels with a slim-fitting mod look, finished off with a flip-billed hat.